Sprint 7 Retrospective: Quality Gates & Human Experience

Sprint 7 Retrospective: Quality Gates & Human Experience TL;DR: Sprint 7 wired 118 V3 services to production REST API routes, built an E2E integration smoke test proving the 6-stage content pipeline works as a chain, enforced memory storage via ADR-032, tested OAuth2 credential rotation, and containerized ComfyUI/FFmpeg. Validated velocity: ~38 points (right-sized from 58). Nine consecutive sprint publishing passes. The gap: persona memory storage is still advisory-only despite three sprints of zero compliance. Goal Sprint 7 was the quality hardening sprint — transforming individually tested V3 services into a verified, integrated production system. Where Sprints 3-6 built capabilities, Sprint 7 proved they work together. This is part of our sprint retrospective series: Sprint 3: Production Validation & Pipeline Hardening Sprint 4: Building the Media Orchestration Engine Sprint 5: YouTube & Video Pipeline — Closing V3 Sprint 6: Podcast Production & Distribution Pipeline